AbstractsEducation Research & Administration

SENSITIVITY OF PRESERVICE TEACHERS TOWARD LANGUAGE DIFFERENCES AMONG CHILDREN

by Marcello Medina




Institution: University of Arizona
Department:
Year: 1980
Keywords: Children  – Language.; Elementary school teachers  – Attitudes.; Student teachers  – Attitudes.
Record ID: 1511116
Full text PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284343


Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the degree of sensitivity of preservice elementary teachers to the language differences of Mexican American children in an oral reading task. The review of related research dealing with language attitudes toward nonstandard speech revealed that te